The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-05-21
Elmer Rider and Annie Ref, Frank SELLER
aud Carrie Johnson.
Vicinity Items.

There Is scarlet fever M Dekdlh, 80
Narseille, has finally agreed ON SOoo
licpnCe, -,
PONTIAC Is going 10 lay several blocks OF
new tile IA u 40
The DeK,lb Building and Lean Assoc
iatiod l. booming,
K,nkak-e il getting upa home talent
MAY entitled the Marble Hearts "
Peru will ~ sample carload OF Qua
WA paving Ill. for some new sidewalks
Eight criminals W-rr uIs, harged from
Toilet last week who came from Chicago
A new parsonage has cen purchased ny
the Peru Evangelical society, at cost Vi
Sl0o NJ,
The next meeting Of the Business Meas
As ,luuou occurs the first Thursday III
June ., .,.ir
The high school pupils will hold their
regular annual picnic ~ the mouth III
Eagle breek on May 2'th -Stre"tor F'''
Press 81,
Prof. VIM Outman has been secured rs
principal oil the Est Mars ,illes Grammar
school .,,,
The Peoria "borus has had very sue
cesslul season, and Is now figuring up cents
each bulence. .,so5
The Joliet city cornell has just passed
AN ordinance creating the Office oi comm o
Toner of heal'. An,
The DeKrlb County Temperance An
anc- will hold It's next convention AL lie
Kalb June 18th and l6l. ~
| Joliet tried 10 do up scrub base pa''
team from Aurora the other day, ana So'
most beautifully done up itself. -,
The graduating class at the Nurseries
biph school will consist of two boys anu
four girls. Wonder how they manage
class picnic.
Ottawa is agit lting the construction OF
dam across tIr Illinois aver Tor me pur'
n. go of creatir additional water power
! EarlCiie AdcOcdte
There will be Temperan Picnic IL
Eby's CIR We 3 miles east OF Mendota' Oh
SATURDAY June llth, leginning at ~ p III
| Nothing stronger than circus lemonade VIII
De served.
A gang of sw ndlers have been ncumiH
ina Ia. farmers in the neighborhood oil
Ear lie, 10 thu tune Of me S2sb ~ II
a harrow scheme and it harrOws the farm
FRS ireadfully A.,
Meud,aa is getting pretty hot about th'
Western Cottage Organ Company G~t'"E
abe nd of them in the IN alter OF the same
The Mendoza people have acted Ike Zen
year.olds in this whole organ factory oosi
ness 80,
The bridge across the Illinois to he bun
AT this place will be little. $50 feet II
length, and will conss st of draw ana thre'
spans The stone piers are To rest upol
niles. around which broken rock VIII Ut
plac. d. Bruce ~ Baron have The job
Streotr W0hitr.
This much ought to be said and sac
promptly, that the treasurer OF LA oali'
c. unity should not come out OF OTTAWA
Stra,ior TndeDehdem Times
.. The Ste,t)r qu II driver has Jus
about enough gal t. think he'o like 10 d.
treasu rer himself.
Fetnerhedde at the Club-"Iha: SKA,
tawbwain is a dweadful avs. Hes sucI
An avs he makes my head ache every Inn
see him, wondawing how the dayvli n
can he such an avs as he is."-IOrh 1oPtG
That's lust what has been pulzling Til
, FREE TRADER as to our fund Rose.
Lorenzo Knickerbocker, son OF Mr.
Daniel Way of Danway died on last Sal
- urday week of spinal meningitis. at the ag
of 40 years He enlisted in Go, l, l3S III!
volunteers at the age of 10, and after M
. discharge became carpenter ana Dridg
. builder. He was buried by Woodruff fo'
J G. A. r., of Marseilles, Rev Shay oiiicla
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